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Many provisions of the Administrative Code of Georgia are legally untenable and violate human rights, says the Human Rights Watch (HRW) and encourages the Georgian authorities to amend the Code in order to guarantee the rights of detainees.

A new service of Supervision and auditing Chamber in Georgia created to monitor financing of political parties will pay special attention to the parties financed by the state, the management of the Camber reported.

The officials and human rights activists of Azerbaijan disagreed in their attitude towards the National plan of actions in the sphere of increase of effectiveness in protection of human rights and freedoms signed by President Ilham Aliev on the New Year’s eve.

Over the period of 2011, no less than 173 persons became victims of armed confrontation in Kabardino-Balkaria, 129 of them were killed and 44 got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on the data from its staff correspondents and other open sources.

Today, the managers of some Georgian television, radio and printed media have issued a memorandum on cooperation with the aim to protect the interests of media in Georgia and agreed to establish the NGO entitled "Solidarity for Media Freedom".

Zviad Sichinava, President of the Football Federation of Georgia, has amnestied five footballers earlier disqualified for organizing "fixed" matches.

In the city of Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan Region), investigators accuse Elena Grigorieva, 43, a member of the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, of "inciting hatred or enmity." The believer herself denies the charges and complains about "threats and blackmail" from an FSB agent.

On January 3, two residents of Dagestan addressed the local police and reported disappearance of their relatives.

The main condition of a militant's adaptation is his refusal from armed struggle against the authorities, rather than from his views, while both militants and power agents need an adaptation mechanism, said journalist Maxim Shevchenko.

The police in Rostov region established the identity of the participants of a mass scuffle that took place in Novocherkassk in the evening of January, 2.

In 2011, at least 14 persons fell victim of the armed conflict in North Ossetia, of whom 4 persons were killed and 10 more injured. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the data from its own correspondents and information from open sources.

Since 2012 mental health of the people doing military service in Chechnya will be estimated with the help of the computer.

In 2011, at least 34 persons fell victim of armed conflict in Karachay-Cherkessia, of whom 22 persons were killed and 12 more injured. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on the data from its own correspondents and information from open sources.

Reception of requests from the people who wish to make a hajj for free or on charitable quotas allotted by Foundation of Suleiman Kerimov, member of Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation, started in Dagestan since January, 1. Within the framework of this charitable program poor Moslems from different regions of Northern Caucasus annually go on a hajj.

A new appeal from 76 Circassians living in Syria with a request to help them to move to their historical homeland has been sent to the leadership of Russia and authorities of Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia.

At least six persons were lost and four more wounded over the past week, that is, from December 26 to January 1, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Stavropol Regional Court is considering a number of complaints lodged by Yuri Gridnev, the head of the local "MinPrirody" (Ministry of Natural Resources), against alienation of land plots in the territory of the state reserve "Russkiy Les" (Russian Forest), located near the city of Stavropol in the vicinity of the village of Grushevoy.

In Dagestan, sappers have neutralized a bomb planted in the city industrial zone of Khasavyurt. The information about an improvised explosive device (IED) came to the police from local residents.

Today, residents of Chechnya commemorate Kunta-Haji Kishiev, one of the most famous and respected saints. In Chechen mosques religious leaders are reading the Koran and perform rituals of mavlid and dhikr. All large dwelling settlements hold the rites of oblation with distribution of sacrificial meat among poor families, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Georgia, the political parties, which have overcome the electoral threshold and which have put at least two women on their party lists of ten candidates, will receive additional funding from the state budget in the amount of 10 percent. The relevant amendments were made in late December last year in the Law "On Political Associations of Citizens".